Toy.



e. E. THOMAS.

TOY.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6, 1914- RENEWED JUNE 22,1915.

Patented J an. 18,

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GEORGE EICI-IMAN THOMAS, OF ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY.

TGY.

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

Application filed November 6, 1914, Serial No. 870,645. Renewed June 22,1915. Serial No. 35,696.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Gnonen E. THOMAS, a

citizen of the United States, residing at cending a ladder and rescuinga body from a window sill, and to this end the invention consists of aladder, a fireman, an elevating means and a movable shelf or support forthe body, which, when the elevating means is actuated to cause thefireman to ascend the ladder, will be tilted so that the body willgravitate into the arms of the fireman who, upon releasing the elevatingdevice,

will gravitate to the ground or the foot of the ladder with thebodyin'his arms.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to theaccompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, inwhich similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in allthe views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device, parts being broken away todisclose the underlying structure; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation; Fig. 3 isa horizontal sectional view taken on the line 3-3 in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4:is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 4 --fl in Fig. 1. I

Referring more particularly to the views, 1 disclose a ladder 10 havingthe usual trans verse rungs 11, said ladder being preferably supportedon a suitable base 12 to extend outwardly at a slight incline..lournaled on the base is a drum 13 operated by a suitablecrank handle14 into which is secured one end of a cord 15 passing upwardly along therear of the ladder and passing around a roller 16 journaled on the upperend of the ladder, the free end of said cord being connected to anelevator 17 preferably formed of a single piece of material having itsends bent around the front face of the ladder so that the elevator canbe slid up and down with the sides of the ladder as guides, the raisingor lowering of the elevator being is pivoted to depend a figure 20preferably having the outline of a fireman in uniform,

a leg wheel 21 being freely mounted to turn upon the body and having thelegs 22 adapted to operate. upon the rungs 11 of the lad-- der when thebody is raised or lowered through the medium of the elevator and theelevating mechanism.

The figure 20 is provided with arms 28 forming a cradle for a body 24normally lying upon a supporting member 25 which is mounted to swingupon the ladder and includes rearwardly projecting extensions 26 adaptedto be engaged by the elevator 17 to tilt the supporting member 25 andpermit the body thereon to gravitate into the arms of the figure.

In the use of the device described we will assume that the fireman isstationed at the foot of the ladder with one of the legs engaging thelower rung of the ladder. Now upon turning the crank handle to wind upthe cord 15 thereon it will be seen that a pull will be imparted to theelevator 17, causing the same to slide upwardly upon the ladder and thuscarry the figure upwardly, thereby resulting in the rotation of the legwheel in view of the fact that one of the legs of the leg wheelpreviously has been in engagement with one of the rungs of the ladderand, in fact, supports the lower portion of the figure upon the ladder.Thus it will appear as if the fireman were ascending the ladder the sameas in actual life and when the elevator 17 engages the extensions 26, itwill be seen that the supporting member 25 will be tilted to release thebody 24 and which will fall into the arms 23 of the fireman. The windingup of the drum is now discontinued and the elevating mechanism releasedso that the figure, with the body in its arms, will gravitate down theladder to the base 12.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the toy described isof a simple construction, consistsof few parts that can be readilyoperated, and can also be readily operated without dan er of getting outoi order.

Havingthus described my imention; I cla11n-:' a

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